On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:31 +0200, Jeff Mutonho wrote: > On 3/21/07, Brad Bonkoski <bbonkoski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Looks like this command: > > ln -f -s vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6 > > linked your new kernel build to vmlinuz-2.6 (Do you have this in your > > /boot ?) > > So, in grub, you would use that instead of the xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 > > My grub.conf now looks like this : > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd1,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title WinXP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen) > root (hd1,0) > kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 > module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > rhgb quiet > module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.18-build-1) > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6 > module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > with Fedora Core (2.6.18-build-1) being the newly built kernel.However > , selecting that kernel at boot time , resulted in a failed boot , > with an error message saying : > "Error 13:Invalid or unsupported executable format > Press any key to continue....." > The GRUB docs explain this error as : "This error is returned if the > kernel image being loaded is not recognized as Multiboot or one of the > supported native formats (Linux zImage or bzImage, FreeBSD, or > NetBSD)." > > How can my built kernel be not supported?This was suppose to be any > easy exercise, > $make mrproper ;make xconfig;make;make modules_install install > and 'make install' was suppose to do the magic of copying my new > kernel to the right place , update grub.conf ... ---- don't you need an initrd? cd /boot mkinitrd initrd-2.6.19-1.2798.fc6.img 2.6.19-1.2798 My /boot/grub/grub.conf has lines like this... kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6.img -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
